Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements — It's Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page.

Google 2.0: Google Universal Search — Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages.

Google moves to 'universal' search — (InfoWorld) - Google will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines in an attempt to deliver as relevant and comprehensive a result set as possible to search queries. — Although Google and its competitors …

More Google Searchology: Google Universal Search — Google's VP of search product and user experience, Marissa Mayer, is now presenting. She's saying there are a lot of non-inuitive advances that need to happen to make search good. "From my perspective, search needs to be easy.

Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels.

Amazon to Sell Music Without Copy Protection — After years of industry speculation, Amazon.com is getting into the digital music business. — Amazon, the Internet's most successful seller of physical CDs, today announced plans to introduce a music download store later this year …

Amazon announces long-rumored DRM-free music store — Amazon dropped the bomb today by announcing its DRM-free music store. The previously-rumored store will be launched sometime "later this year" and offer unprotected MP3 files for purchase. The Amazon music store …

iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January — This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed all the way back to January.

FreeHand no longer updated; moving to Illustrator — After a long and storied career, Adobe (neé Altsys, Aldus, and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road. The application has not been revised since Macromedia released MX nearly four years ago …

ANS and Security Bulletin Updates — This is Mark Miller again to let you know about some additional changes we are making this month. In April, we announced changes to our blog site. This month we are announcing changes to our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) as well as some changes …

Hollywood Showdown — It is that time again. Like boxers getting ready for the title match, they're circling each other, trading taunts, and promising to deliver a knockout blow. Here in Hollywood, it's the triennial Main Event: the Guilds against the Studios.

Microsoft brings Vista to developing world PCs — LOS ANGELES — After a year in trials, Microsoft Corp. is fine tuning its FlexGo initiative for developing world PCs. Partners including Advanced Micro Devices, Infineon, Intel, and Via Technologies are collaborating on new designs focused …